I have updated the online shop with the fall availability. Click here to get shopping. Weather is getting hinky around the states so order carefully as we don’t have control over the shipments once they leave here. All the plants are hardened off and some are going dormant as we speak, it hasn’t been an unusual fall here but we have had a few hard frosts. The rain is back with a vengance this week, atmospheric river laden with inches of rain is pointed straight at Oregon. It’s always these early storms when the ground is still a bit hydrophobic from summers drought and the leaves are clogging all the drainage ways that we get some flooding. Of course the flip side is nice to not have to worry about watering anything in the garden for the next 7 months.
In other news, I’m working on a new batch of the ultimate rock gardeners tools, these should be done in the next week or so, just in time for the holiday shopping rush if you want to order one for the gardener in your life. These are really great tools that can be used for everything from weeding to sticking cuttings, planting in a crevice garden or trough, to shivving the cell mate next to you. Keep an eye out for those to come available in the next week or two. I’ll probably throw an update with some holiday goodies as well. So check back often. If you are past the planting season where you are at, and you are looking for stocking stuffers and
Now is a great time to get some troughs built and ready to age over winter! If you have a few that are looking empty after a long hot summer, you can get some treasures from the plant shop to fill those blank spots in!
We had a fantastic time teaching a hypertufa trough making class with the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group over the Halloween weekend!
Check out the gallery of our Halloween weekend trough workshop at Gossler Farms Nursery we had a great turnout from the membership of the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group. It was a chilly fall day, with fog like pea soup on the way down to Springfield, but as the day got on, the fog lifted and the sun came out to show the beautiful fall colors of Roger Gossler’s amazing plant collection. What a perfect backdrop for an artistic endeavor like construction hypertufa troughs. I want to say a big thank you to Lori Chips for helping with the new recipe. For those of you who don’t know about this, here is a PSA. You can no longer get portland type II cement, which has long been the foundational ingredient of a well made hypterufa blend. The new type 1L material has a lot of fly ash and a much greater proportion of fly ash in it so you if you have had a long standing, well loved hypertufa recipe like I have you know have to modify it.
Keep an eye out for the holiday updates and a fresh batch of ultimate rock gardeners tools! We are supposed to get an atmospheric river of rain hitting us from the Pacific Ocean soon, so that means plenty of time to get some shop work done on those tools!
Wooooooooooooshhhhhhh………….that’s the sound of a blue wave flooding across the nation! Don’t get me wrong, I am a left wing, right wing, it’s all flapping the same bird kind of guy. But that was the most satisfying thing I have seen in a long time in politics, an utter and complete rejection of the failed policies and fascist rhetoric that have made the last few years hellish for pretty much anyone without a billion dollar hedge fund. Oh, shit, is that Stephen Miller being promoted to the the Chief of Staff position? That is a giant F U to America from the lame duck, get ready for some craziness, the likes of which we haven’t seen as of yet since he is backed into a corner.
Cheers,
Mark